Because of the new revelations in the corruption scandal in the Frankfurt judiciary, the FDP is calling for “a more offensive and public clarification” by the state government.
"The question arises as to whether Alexander B. has built a system," said Marion Schardt-Sauer, legal policy spokeswoman for the Liberal parliamentary group.
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The scandal seems to be spreading after new developments.
As has now become known, another public prosecutor is now being investigated at the General Public Prosecutor's Office - on suspicion of aiding and abetting embezzlement in office.
The official was suspended by the state of Hesse.
The spokeswoman for the Frankfurt public prosecutor's office confirmed to the FAZ that the accused was a former employee of the senior public prosecutor Alexander B.
Investigations have been going on for a year and a half
"The Justice Minister has to explain why it took so long until the second public prosecutor was suspended from duty, and how long it has been known in the ministry that there is also a suspicion against this man," the FDP politician demands.
B. has been investigated for corruption for a year and a half. As head of a central office for medical commercial criminal law, he is said to have commissioned overpriced reports for around 15 years and earned money from them himself. In the five years before his arrest alone, the chief public prosecutor is said to have collected 240,000 euros in "additional income". It is currently unclear whether the public prosecutor, who has now been suspended, is suspected of being bribed, the spokeswoman said. To do this, further investigations would have to be awaited first.
At the end of November it had already been shown that the investigations against Chief Public Prosecutor B. were larger than initially known.
At that time it was told to the FAZ that in connection with the allegations against Alexander B. an enlarged team of public prosecutors was investigating a total of eight people.